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Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Leona steps into Zarletti's Ristorante, she unexpectedly steps into another life--the one that could have been hers. And now she must choose between two paths: one with the love of her life and one with the daughter she's always longed for.
2142) Glamorous illusions
Author
Series
Grand tour volume 1
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After Cora learns she is the illegitimate child of a copper king, she travels with her new family, facing the hardships as well as the privileges of the family name and embarking on a journey of self-discovery.
2143) Whale fall
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful...
2144) Vienna prelude
Author
Series
Zion covenant volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1989.
Language
English
Description
Blond Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, adopts an Aryan stage name for protection in the early days of Nazi rule, but struggles to decide whether it is best to hide or take a stand against Hitler's regime.
2145) The hidden branch
Author
Series
[Alex and Briggie mysteries] volume 5
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Hired to find a murdered man's heirs, professional genealogist Alexandra Campbell and her sidekick, Briggie, are brought to the swanky beaches of Southern California and a community of Armenian relatives who all seem to be hiding a secret.
2146) A is for ambitious
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The awesome, bold, charming, and decidedly ambitious new picture book by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ambitious Girl, Meena Harris, is also a must-have ABC book.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the army. It is suggested to her that she become a governess. But first, she will act as caretaker to Mrs. Fog, an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside resort. Constance is soon swept up in the social whirl...
Author
Series
Publisher
Persephone
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Miss Pettigrew, a governess looking for work, is sent by mistake to the home of Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous nightclub singer involved with three different men and is invited to stay after offering Miss LaFosse common sense advice about her love life.
2149) The last to let go
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When her mother is arrested for killing Brooke's abusive father, Brooke must confront the shadow of her family's violence and dysfunction"--
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Grieving after her father's death, a young woman seeks solace in an Outer Banks beach town of North Carolina where her best friend's family runs a small inn. The family welcomes Charlotte with chowder dinners and a cozy room, but her friend Evie has a looming life change of her own, and soon Charlotte seeks other attractions to navigate her grief. Will she, like in some television movie, find her way back through a romance, or are there larger forces...
2151) Bad habit: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Assigned to train an AI how to be a friend, Lee discovers this project is part of a classified government mission to solve loneliness -- an emotion erased from society's lexicon decades ago -- and must decide what she's willing to give up for success and learn what it means to be a true friend.
Author
Series
Girls of paper and fire volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of the plan---it's just the beginning. Now Lei...
2154) Canary girls: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
2155) Runaway: stories
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
The incomparable Alice Munros bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munros hands, the people she writes...
2156) Yaya and the sea
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On the first day of spring, a young New Yorker, with her mother and aunts, takes the train to the ocean to make an offering of flowers and fruit to Mama Ocean, thanking her for her magnificence, and welcoming the new year.
2157) Raven girl
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Once there was a Postman who fell in love with a Raven. So begins the tale of a postman who encounters a fledgling raven while on the edge of his route and decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls in love and conceives a child, an extraordinary raven girl trapped in a human body. The raven girl feels imprisoned by her arms and legs and covets wings and the ability to fly. Betwixt and between, she reluctantly grows into a young woman, until...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
2159) Unlikely animals
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery--home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling...
2160) Love, Jane: a novel
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jane Reeves and Sean O'Callaghan seem to be a match made in heaven--but the timing is all wrong. Jane has her heart set on serving a mission, and is leaving in a month. Sean, unable to deny the depth of their feelings for one another, promises to wait for her. Life unfolds for both Jane and Sean, with communication limited to weekly e-mails. But with only a few months left in her mission, Jane receives the dreaded "Dear Jane", along with the news...
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